Does expressing your emotions raise or lower your blood pressure?: The answer depends on cultural context

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 510-517

  Butler, Emily A ^a   Lee, Tiane L ^b   Gross, James J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian; Blood pressure; Culture; Emotion expression; European

Indexed keywords

EID: 64749095077     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022109332845     Document Type: Article

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